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Gary Strong Curriculum Center - College of Education, Health and Human Sciences: Banned/Challenged Books

Banned/Challenged Books available at the Curriculum Center (GSCC) and Main Library

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie; Ellen Forney (Illustrator)
Call Number: GSCC NA FIC Alexie/MAIN LIBRARY BROWSING ALEXIE
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Call Number: GSCC PBK FIC Anderson
Feed by M. T. Anderson
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ9.A53376F44 2002
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PS3551.N464Z5 and PS3551.N464Z466 1993
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Call Number: GSCC PBK FIC ASH
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PR9199.3.A8H36 1993
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer; M. Bauer
Call Number: GSCC PBK FIC BAU/MAIN LIBRARY PZ9.B375O5 1986
City of Thieves by David Benioff
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PS3552.E54425 C58 2008
Forever... by Judy Blume
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ14.B56 F67 2014
The Tortilla Curtain by T. C. Boyle
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PS3552.O932T67 1995
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Call Number: GSCC FIC Bradbury/MAIN LIBRARY PS3503.R167F3
Forever in Blue by Ann Brashares
Call Number: GSCC PBK FIC Brashares4
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Call Number: GSCC FIC Card
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PS3553.H3469P47 2012
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Call Number: GSCC FIC CHO/MAIN LIBRARY PZ9.C456A5 2004
A Stone in My Hand by Cathryn Clinton; Peter Johnson (Illustrator)
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ9.C576S76 2002
The Goats by Brock Cole
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ9.C6254G6 1987
ISBN: 9780374326784
Publication Date: 1987-07-01
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Call Number: GSCC PBK FIC COL/MAIN LIBRARY BROWSING COLLINS
Crazy Lady! by Jane Leslie Conly
Call Number: GSCC FIC CON/MAIN LIBRARY PZ9.C638C73 1993
The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney; BookSource Staff (Compiled by)
Call Number: GSCC PBK FIC COO
Fade by Robert Cormier
Call Number: GSCC PBK FIC COR/MAIN LIBRARY Stonewall 2010 Mc Mann
I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
Call Number: GSCC PBK FIC COR/MAIN LIBRARY PZ9.C68I2
Tenderness by Robert Cormier
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ14.C67T46 2004
We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ9.C68W44 1991
Chinese Handcuffs by Chris Crutcher
Call Number: GSCC PBK FIC CRU
Deadline by Chris Crutcher
Call Number: GSCC PBK FIC CRU
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher
Call Number: GSCC PBK FIC CRU/MAIN LIBRARY PZ9.C79S73 1993
Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher
Call Number: GSCC PBK FIC CRU/MAIN LIBRARY PZ9.C79W54 2001

Banned/Challenged Books available at the Curriculum Center (GSCC) and Main Library

Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PS3554.A5815K75 1995
The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth
Call Number: GSCC FIC Danforth
Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PR9309.9.D67D4 1992
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PS3554.O695Y4 2003
Romiette and Julio by Sharon M. Draper; Adam Lowenbein (Illustrator)
Call Number: GSCC PBK FIC Draper
The Spoken Word Revolution by Mark Eleveld (Editor); Marc Smith
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PS615.S65 2003
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PS3555.L625I5 2002 and PS3555.L57I5
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Matthew J. Bruccoli (Editor); Fredson Bowers (Text by)
Call Number: GSCC PBK FIC Fitzgerald/MAIN LIBRARY PS3511.I9G7 1991
The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank; Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation Staff (Compiled by); Arnold J. Pomerans (Translator)
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY DS135.N6F73313 1989
America by E. R. Frank
Call Number: GSCC PBK FIC Frank
My Heartbeat
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ9.W44 M8 2002
Publication Date: 2002-04-29
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PS3557.A3519N48 1998
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
Call Number: GSCC FIC Gaines/MAIN LIBRARY PS3557.A355A8
Fat Kid Rules the World by K. L. Going
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ9.G65F38 2003
Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Read by)
Call Number: GSCC PBK FIC Golding/MAIN LIBRARY PR6013.O35L7 1996
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Call Number: GSCC FIC Green/MAIN LIBRARY BROWSING GREEN
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Call Number: GSCC FIC Green Looking
Paper Towns by John Green
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ14.G74P37 2008
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene; Bette Greene
Call Number: GSCC PBK FIC GRE/MAIN LIBRARY PZ9.G73S8
Palomar by Gilbert Hernandez
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PN6727.H47P25 2003
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
Call Number: GSCC PBK FIC HIN/MAIN LIBRARY PZ9.H56O98 2006
That Was Then, This Is Now by S. E. Hinton
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ9.H56T43 1980
Crank by Ellen Hopkins
Call Number: GSCC PBK FIC Hopkins Crank Series Bk.1
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PS3608.O525K58 2003
GLBTQ: The Survival Guide for Queer and Questioning Teens by Kelly Huegel
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY Stonewall 2012 Huegel
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PS3515.U789T5 2000
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley; John Sutherland (Introduction by)
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PR6015.U9 B65 2013
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Call Number: GSCC PBK FIC Keyes
Christine by Stephen King
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PS3561.I483C4 1983

Books available at the Curriculum Center (GSCC) and Main Library

Beyond Magenta by Susan Kuklin
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY HQ77.9 .K85 2014
Hold Still by Nina LaCour
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PS3612.A352H65 2010
Crazy by Benjamin Lebert; Carol Brown Janeway (Translator)
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PT2672.E28C7313 2000
To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee Harper
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PS3562.E353 T6 1999
Best Little Girl in the World by Steven Levenkron; S. Levenkron
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PS3562.E872B4 1997
Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
Call Number: GSCC FIC Levithan Two
One Fat Summer by Robert Lipsyte
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ9.L56O5
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Call Number: GSCC PBK FIC London Call/MAIN LIBRARY PS3523.O46C3 1995 (and other locations)
Growing up Chicana/o by Tiffany Ana López; Rudolfo A. Anaya (Foreword by)
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PS508.M4G76 1993
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ9.M383E2 2003
Alice in Jeopardy by Ed McBain
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PS3515.U585A78 2005
Vampire Academy Series by Richelle Mead
Call Number: GSCC PBK FIC Mead Vampire Academy (Bk.1-6)
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Call Number: GSCC PBK FIC MEY/MAIN LIBRARY PS3613.E979 T85 2005
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PS3563.O8749B55 2000
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PS3563.O8749S66
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PS3565.B75T5 1990
Harris and Me by Gary Paulsen
Call Number: GSCC PBK FIC PAU
Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
Call Number: GSCC FIC Peck Day
The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ9.P58B6 2000
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
Call Number: GSCC PBK FIC REN
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
Call Number: GSCC FIC Rowell Eleanor
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PS3537.A426C3 1951